ProWorld's Travel Journals

ProWorld

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ProWorld offers 1 to 26-week volunteer, intern and study abroad experiences in Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, and Thailand. Since our founding in 1998, we have focused on developing relationships with communities throughout Latin America, Asia and Africa; building trust and understanding between ourselves and our hosts. Ensured of this strong foundation, our first program began in May of 2000. Since then, hundreds of students and volunteers have joined our programs to perform service projects, internships, and semester programs throughout Peru, Belize, Mexico, Brazil, Ghana, Thailand and India. While our projects often have modest beginnings, they are remarkably successful, thorough, and perhaps most importantly, all are chosen based on communities' assessments of their own needs. In the spirit of collaboration and mutual learning, we will continue to unite our volunteers our host communities. We believe there is much we can learn from each other and much we can accomplish together.

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  • Cuy

    Travel Journal from Peru Cusco, Peru | Wed May 23, 2012 | Views: 1301

    This week has already been filled with so many different things! One, I got to experience a real earthquake on Sunday night, it was not bad, but definitely shook the whole house! I also tried cuy for the first time (which is guinea pig for those of you who do not know) and found it was more difficult that I thought it would be to get past the little face …

    MeganDarrow
    Medical Internship in Peru

  • A LITTLE can truly go a LONG way!

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    Travel Journal from Ghana Cape Coast, Ghana | Wed May 23, 2012 | Views: 131

    As I’ve already known, the age of women at their first pregnancy is decreasing as the years past and as I have recently learned, this is not only the case for many areas of the US but here in Ghana, 13 years of age is slowly becoming the norm for a female (I refuse to say “woman” at such a young age) to have given birth to at the very …

    Taelor_Tiffanie
    My Reflection Process

  • "Futbooooollll!"

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    Travel Journal from Brazil Salvador, Brazil | Tue May 22, 2012 | Views: 1589

    Sunday night I experienced my first futbol game!!  It was awesome.  I met Dylan (from London) at the park to get a bus to meet another girl form Colombia.  I felt really cool in the Bahia jersey that Victoria let me borrow!  It was however, pouring rain.  I had an umbrella but the wind was very strong.  My tennis shoes and socks got absolutely soaked before we even …

    ChelseaSimons
    My Brazilian Experience

  • Food for thought

    Travel Journal from United States United States | Tue May 22, 2012 | Views: 89

    “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury

    JessicaClayton
    Pre travel jitters

  • Esperanza Community Center

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    Travel Journal from Belize San Ignacio, Belize | Fri May 18, 2012 | Views: 949

    Most of us went to bed early the night before. We've been told how chaotic it can be. The morning was like every other. Wake up, have breakfast, get your scrubs on, and most importantly fill your water bottle. If I haven't mentioned it before, the weather has been an element of contention. The temperature has been routinely in the 80's. Which sounds quite wonderful until you factor in the …

    RichardHuffman
    Normandale Belize 2012